Freedom to connect, freedom to talk, freedom to survive.

David,

I would like so much to be there, but I live in a small town in the North of Italy, far from Rome, far from Milano, far from Florence and more than anything far from the airport.

Sometimes a free fish doesn't understand how it feels to be a hooked one.

Nevertheless, I would like to express my ideas, in the only way which is possible to me: bothering you.

You said the Telecoms will loose because they have the wrong business model.
I say our whole society has the wrong business model.
And that blocks progress and what is the most serious consequence, blocks the economy.

Take for example the Internet.
It would be a wonderful virtual market for millions of small entrepreneurs, willing to sell their products on the Net.
What could be better that a place where millions are connected, and read and look?

But the moment you want to charge, and I am talking about micropayments, let's say a sum around 1-5 dollars, which considering the audience could bring in the pocket of the small entrepreneur a nice sum monthly (of course if he produces something sellable), the moment you use a Credit Card with a bank or even pay pal, the sum the seller and the buyer have to pay sometimes makes the product too expensive.
And this is how the big Monopolistic companies, in this case the Banks, block progress and economy.

Once at least the business model worked, because they employed a lot of people, but now they only fire and use computers.
But the products they sell do not become cheaper, on the contrary, the less it costs, the more they charge.
Sometimes a click on a computer is charged more than $100.

And this model works for everything, including the Telephone Companies, all the giants of this corrupted society.

I always talked about the "Peaceful Internet revolution", but now I realize there is not such a thing as a "peaceful revolution", you cannot produce anything with peace, you have to fight.

And it surprises me to see how the people still do not understand that the number is the winner.
How could a bunch of few win against an army of billions?
Why people still accept the actual situation?
Why people like you, who can make an opinion, who can really change things, don't say:

Let's begin the revolution.

Why don't you shout?

I would be your follower number one.
Even as a hooked fish, even from the remotest town of Italy.
At least I have an Internet connection...

Patrizia

More than ever from a World on IP


PS I will not be there, but I HOPE my small virtual voice will be...

When Priority is a PRIORITY.

Protagoras:

"Man is the measure of all things"

Patrizia:

"Your own ears are the measure of VoIP."

And mine surely are. Because I cannot stand to talk to somebody without understanding what he says.
That is, without completely understanding what he says.
May be this is a chromosomal limit.
We Italians are so used to talk with our hands, our eyes, our lips, that when it comes to a communication using the plain voice we encounter big problems.

And that itself puts an end to the discussion: SIP or H323?
NO PRIORITATION no good quality.
No good quality no communication.

SIP won't have a future in Italy.

VoIP is nothing else than a new alphabet.

The letters of our alphabet are derived from a script invented, or at least developed, by the Phoenicians.
Their neighbours, the ancient Greeks, adopted this for their own use and by translating Phoenicians letters into Greek, gave the world the alphabet.

The Greeks were probably the first to marry writing with speech.
Originally they didn't separate words, then, to help pronunciation, they invented the vowels and used spaces to separate words.
Successive cultures chopped and changed the alphabet, by amending, adding and dropping letters to accommodate differing glitches and sounds. With 26 characters (but the Italians still just use 21) 403,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pronounceable words are possible.

All characters were originally signs and all signs were once images.

VoIP is just another kind of alphabet.
The letters are numbers and the codec puts together the numbers and recreate the voice.

From that the importance to use the right codec and the right protocol.
The quality can change enormously depending on them.

If you want to be clear, just use the right "alphabet".

The anchestor of the Internet

The ancestor of the Internet was a Network of people in a group, chatting and gossiping.
Their medium was the air and the protocol was ABC and so on.
22 alphabetic letters could express sentiments, feelings, opinion, disopinion, hate, love.
The expression of the face, the inflection of the voice, the gestures of the hands, all gave shape and meaning to the words.

The bandwidth was unlimited, free and good quality.
You didn't need modems or anything of that kind.
The modem was your mouth that converted impulse from your brains into words, the words reached the destined address very fast, were reconverted into impulses in the brain of your partner and the communication began, went on and stopped at your pleasure.

Then somebody found the way to transport voice through cables or through the air and somebody else understood how profitable it could be if he could invent a "spectrum" in which the wireless voice could travel and of course be nicely paid for it.
We not only had to pay for the device, but also for the "air" that notoriously and till then belonged to the people.

The same happened with wires.
You could only lease them, because it was more convenient.
And we still go on leasing them, even though we paid their cost one million times.

A smart idea was called "Monopoly" and the smart Monopoly belonged to the "Smart people".

Then somebody created the Internet, which in principle was nothing more than the same group of people, an enlarged one, where the protocol was not the voice anymore, but TCP/IP, where the air was taxed as well as the cables that transported the protocol.
Now, they found out it could be profitable to regulate not only the air or the cables, but also the content going up and down the Network.
It is like taxing the people when they open their mouth, not only for the fragment of air they occupy with their voice, but even for the words that come out of their mouth.

I think that this is really too much.

Addiction

Once there was a man that was so intrigued with calling with his phone that he became a phone calling the man he was.

Of course he used VoIP.